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"We Are the Eight Percent": Inside Egypt's Underground Shaabi Music Scene
In the heated den of the Greek Club on Emad el-Din Street in downtown Cairo, sweating bodies heave and move to the infectious beats of reggaeton fused with the beat of a tabla, as Amr Haha, DJ Figo and...
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الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة والمصالحة الفلسطينيّة
إن نتائج الجولة الأولى من الانتخابات الرئاسيّة المصريّة كانت مفاجئة في عدة مسائل، أبرزها تأهل أحمد شفيق لانتخابات الرئاسة وليس عمرو موسى، وتأهل محمد مرسي وليس عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح، وصعود نجم حمدين...
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العبودية وجدل إحراق كتب الفقه المالكي في موريتانيا
لقد تابع الكثيرون باهتمام كبير إقدام السيد بيرام ولد اعبيدي— لاحظوا حتى الاسم يحمل رواسب زمن العبودية التي يناضل ضدها بيرام—على إحراق مختارات من كتب الفقه المالكي المسؤولة، حسب زعمه، عن استمرار الرق...
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New Texts Out Now: Maaike Voorhoeve, Family Law in Islam
Maaike Voorhoeve, editor, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What led you to edit this book? Maaike Voorhoeve...
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في السعودية فقط.. نقابة صحافيين بلا نقباء
إنك لا تجني من الشوك العنب والدولة المستبدة لا تنجب الحرية، إنما الحرية تولد من رحم الأحرار. وهل يمكن لدولة تعتقل أكثر من ١٪ من مجمل مواطنيها وتغيبهم وراء ضوء الشمس في سجون الرأي ومصادرة الحرية وتنكل...
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The Arab World and the Media's Symbiotic Revolutions
The Arab world has forever changed, and so has the media. Some would argue governance, as we've known it, is also changing. Business is certainly changing; in fact, the whole world might just be...
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Syria Media Roundup (May 31)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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Haera Unveiled (In both Arabic and English)
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (May 31)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya....
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الأميرة النائمة: الوردة الكبيرة 1939-2012
العناوين الكثيرة يمكن أن نضعها لآلاف من صفحات الكتابة، ورقية وضوئية، وتخطيطات كتاب وارد، عن الوردة "أميرة الغناء العربي" (1939-2012). لقب صنعته الصحافة بعد فيلمها الثاني"أميرة العرب"(1963). كأن نقول...
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Egypt’s Elections under Military Rule: Join Our Resistance to the...
[The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo on 1 June 2012.] Egypt’s Elections under Military Rule: Join Our Resistance to the Counter-Revolution To you at whose side we struggle, From...
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Garbage Collectors and the Struggle for Workers' Rights in Yemen
“I will do everything I can to grow a field in the dessert” - Haidar Swaid, Member of the Garbage Collectors Syndicate In both the foreign and local press, conventional frameworks for understanding the...
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Anti-Shafiq Protest in Tahrir
Hundreds of protesters marched on Tahrir today, calling for the execution of presidential candidate General Ahmad Shafiq, Mubarak's former prime minister and head of the air force. The demonstrators...
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Malayalee Associations in the Gulf: Pushing Boundaries of Political Imagination
The migration of Keralites to the Arab Gulf region has generated various forms of translocal political moorings in the host countries. They are translocal in the sense that they are impacted by even...
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Handala Will Age Again Soon
As a person who grew up in a diasporic Palestinian family, there have always been symbols around me that reminded me of Palestine. My grandparents’ homes are adorned with them; from framed pictures of...
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In Disappointing Transition, Analysts Say Mubarak's Verdict Mocks Justice
The only trial that has taken place against one of the fallen dictators of the Arab revolutions ended today. The verdicts in former President Hosni Mubarak's trial may have symbolic importance for the...
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The Egyptian State: Both Deep and Shallow
A few months ago analysts started talking about “the deep state” of Egypt. They were referring to the forces that have resisted the sweep or revolution and made the path to change and transformation...
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Egypt Media Roundup (June 4)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
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Bahrain: The Dragonfly's Eye
I look in the dragonfly's eye, and I see the mountains over my shoulder--- Issa Bahrain is a small country, and though the story of its own trials and troubles during the past year and a half is...
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